Is Michael Garfier. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high tech Texan.
Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texans items to make life easier,
some new technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might want. Texas.
Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic
with your gadgets, heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech
Texan. Michael Garfield. All right, here's the deal. I promise not
to mention that today is four twenty because I have no clue ad four twenty
is. I have no clue at for twenty means I don't know why it's
called four to twenty. It doesn't even make sense. So four to twenty
is gonezo. Someone just alluded that today is for twenty. I know it
has something to do with illicit illegal drugs that we do not do in Texas,
and no one in their life should do. Look at me on my
freaking threshold, So happy for twenty. You better not be doing anything other
than waiting for the Houston Texans new uniform reveal last week. I really had
to pull that one out, and with that we do start the High Tech
Dixon Show coming up this show, We've got your questions seven to one three,
two one, two five nine five. A lot of email, a
lot of email this week, and people want to know some of your Apparently
you're sick of your phones. You want to know some of the better phones.
And it's nice to know that you turn to me, your trusted high
tech Hexan that you know I don't use iPhones. I'm not a big Apple
guy. I am an Android guy. And there are a number of them
out there. And what are some of the better non Apple phones, especially
the foldable phones. And I have played with a lot of foldable phones,
and more are coming out and we still do not know. We have no
confirmation that Apple is coming out with a foldable I phone, so I will
go through with that. People also want to know about new Wi Fi routers.
How old is your Wi Fi router? Now we certainly know what Wi
Fi is. And let me go back to tell you how long I've been
doing this. When I started doing the High Tech Texan, I started on
television. I was on Channel two here in Houston on the it's the NBC
affiliate early in the morning, and this was two thousand, two thousand and
what almost a quarter century ago. Who I am dating myself? Arn I
peeps and I would be on the morning news about ten minutes, about six
fifty six fifty five. It was a segment called nothing but Net just because
the day before we launched the segment, we couldn't think of anything else of
the Internet. And I would I would talk about, you know, there
was the dot com era. I would talk about the new technology. Laptops
were massive, they were big, they were heavy. Desktops were huge,
so much they it was a monitor. Then you had a tower underneath your
desk with the cord and you know, there were two thousand there were three
thousand dollars for those. Cell phones were Hey, I'm not saying the joke.
I mean, BlackBerry was the thing back in the day. Nokia was
hot. Certainly there was a seven years, six to seven years before the
iPhone would be out there. But Wi Fi, let's go back to the
point of this. Wi Fi had just started rolling out. Well to that
fact, high speed internet started rolling out. And actually I told the story
the other day. They're like, oh, that's or not, Garf.
I've known you for like twelve years and now I'm putting two two together high
speed before kids, pull up a chair, because Uncle Garfy's going to go
back into the wayback machine here. Before there was high speed internet, okay,
ble internet whatever we have, there was dial up, and dial up
was aol. Dial up was ev one. Everything's Internet, I think that
was what it was called here at Houston. You would dial in number on
your computer. The motive would go like a fax and you would be connected
at a boad rate. You're lucky if it was you know, seventeen thousand
bots per printed twenty thousand bucks. And there was bulletin board services. Then
Comcat was a Comcast. No, no, it was Time Warner. Time
Warner had the They had the the Houston monopoly on cable before they switched it
out with Comcast years ago. But anyway, Time Warner was here and they
launched something called row Runner. Row Runner. Well, I that helped launch
my career. They I was doing high tech text and stuff on Channel two.
The local Time Warner peeps wanted to get out the message that Internet high
speed is the way to go fast tight through Roadrunner table and it was much
better than dial up. So they knew I was a technology. HEMP.
I was talking about technology all the time, so they may be their spokesperson.
So I was on commercial after commercial, I was on billboards. It
was. It was fine and helpless, without a doubt at a time Warner
and I'm forever indebted at a Time Warner. They helped launch my career.
I came up with the high tech textan brand. I owned the trademark,
but they they made me ubiquitous. Somehow. I was on TV and radio
more than Mattress Mac. I mean, it was, it was crazy.
The point is there that was high speed Internet. Well, the high speed
internet obviously I had to plug something in until Wi Fi came on. Wi
Fi was a router and I remember talking about routers and how it is and
how simple, and my sticks still to this day is how I take technology
and how it could be make an understandable easy. You know. I used
to say, listen, you know, yes, you can go to your
coffee shop with your laptop, open up your computer and you could surf the
internet thanks to Wi Fi. That was a long story to get to how
old is your Wi Fi router? There are new standards of Wi Fi routers
out there, and I am going to I got questions, you know,
Michael, is a time. How often do you need to change your WiFi
router? Minds seems a little slow number one. It may not. You
may not need a new WiFi router. You may need to move it within
your home or within your office. You know, maybe the more furniture you
get there, maybe as your home settles or somebody. Wi Fi has to
go through walls, it has to go through upstairs and downstairs, it goes
through inside and outside. Maybe. But there are new standards of Wi Fi,
Wi Fi Max, there's Wi Fi six, there's Wi Fi seven.
I'll give you some good prices on those things, and we'll go over how
to improve your internet speed. And that was a law that was a long
way around to getting on Wi Fi. And but anyway, the point is
if you do want to call, if you do any email, you can
find me at Michael at hi tech Texan dot com. He spelled the whole
thing out if you If that's too long, I hope you follow me on
social media unless you are blocked, and you know who you are. H
I G h T E c h T e X A N high tech text
and you can just post something go on the X, go on Twitter,
go on threads, and you could just say, hey, Garf, I
got a question for you and whatever. And you know what, we also
have some gifts to give away too. If I get a very good question,
then I'm not saying stumps me, but it's like, you know what
this is, you are contributing to my show. We've got a new uh
a new found what it's not new. It's a great restaurant that finally came
to Houston. There's four locations here and I'm just I'm really just been eating
there a lot. It's it's it's very nice. It's called Cabo Bob's.
Cabo Bob's make your own burritos. They're out of Austin. There's four locations,
ones in Stafford, Texas on the southwest side, ones in Katie,
one is in Cyprus, and then one is kind of near the gallery at
San felape At right near the AHV fountain. So it's good stuff. They
have given me just a stack of credit cards, twenty five dollars gift cards.
To put it this way, if I pick a winner, this is
why you're going to email me. This is why you're going to post something
on the ex at High Tech Texan that there's something good. I'm going to
give away a blah bob so you and probably at least somebody else you could
take. If not your family, you can go get some good burritos.
It's burritos because it is lunchtime right now as we do the show on KPRC
nine fifty am, I am Michael. That is Callum Reid here on the
other side. He's going to take us to break and when we come back,
I am going to tell you things about foldable phone, some good Wi
Fi routers. And by the way, here's the teas if you have or
you had AT and T is your wireless carrier. Bad news, there has
been a day to reach good news. AT and T is offering something pretty
pretty good. And you're gonna like hearing this. Comeout up high Tech Taxi
show. Callum Reid over there behind the last thank you very much for pushing
all the buttons and making me sound Jare I say sexy? For all these
years had my voice? My voice was not my dad. Cal did you
have to really getna used ai my voice or something? A few weeks ago,
I was a little down man. I had a little procedure done and
wouldn't feel good. No, it was real. It was real. Okay,
well, thank you very much. Hey, cal, don't talk to
me about four to twenty. Today's April twentieth. I don't want to hear
it. You young kids. I don't know what it means. Just get
off my lawn. It is Michael. I am Michael Garfield, that's right,
though I don't know me, the same guy that you pop and see
on Great Day Houston on Channel eleven tuned in this coming week between nine am
to ten am. One of these days we're gonna be talking about what's coming
up. Oh yeah, we shot a feature coming up on Keels and Wheels
that's coming up Saturday, May third and Sunday May fourth. It was actually
fourth and May fourth and fifth Kentucky Derby Weekend. But Keels and Wheels down
and Seabrook. That's always fun. It's the classic car and boat show.
So I will be on GDH Great Day Houston along with my good friend Deborah
Duncan phone number here seven one three two one two five nine five Oh name
that number has not changed. And the twenty two years that a lot of
people have been listening to I just got some emails over here. Michael.
Have a good story about how you started with being the spokesperson. I remember
your TV commercials when you did the Time Warner stuff. Did they Was that
your actually hold on? There was three emails over hero one. It was
really cute, Uh, Michael. I remember vividly your Time Warner commercials.
I think you were golfing in one and I think you were running in one.
Was that your son, your actual son, who was one of your
commercials back way back when? And this is from my Jessica Jessica's down in
Perland. Yes, it was. Yes, So I need to I know
I have these videos. I guess I should put them on my website.
We shot these videos and they were very professionally done. When I was when
Time Water had rolled out road Runner, the high speed internet service, back
in two thousand and one, two thousand and two, they reached out to
me because I was already on TV. I was on Channel two doing talking
about technology, and I said, sure, let's see we've got ao all
Time Warner, the world's largest communications company at that time, which it was.
You want me to be your spokesperson across TV and radio across the state
of Texas as just as I'm building my brand. Yeah, I think it's
a good deal. Yeah, I'm more than happy to do it. But
I b anyway, So we shot these commercials and they were shot we shot
them in Austin because that's what the production company was. And I was with
this is I'm just gonna give me some insights, skinny, because one day
I'm never threatening to write a book, but people have told me I need
to write a book and how to brand yourself and whatever, which which I've
never read a book. Why the hell am I going to write a book
so to build a bran So in the way, I popped onto the Time
Warner thing and we shot these commercials and this is twenty four ye twenty three,
twenty four years ago. I I am real. I am about as
real real person as you can be. There is zero things that this is
my real hair. I do not die my hair. This is my real
name. You think a loserish name like Michael Garfield will be made up.
No, my real name is Michael Garfield. That's the name I was given
with. And I'm not going to go as far as giving you my my
other government id stuff like my middle name and I and they they said what
do you want? They were formulating the script of the commercials, and I'm
like, well, this is what happens. Because I've been doing this TV
thing on Channel two on the news. People come up to me all the
time where wherever I am, and they asked me technology questions. And it's
kind of like, I'm a doctor. You know, if you find out
someone's a doctor, it's like, oh doc, you know, I've got
this pain in my arm, and you know the doctor you're at a party.
So I'm the same thing as people come asking me, Hey, Michael,
what cell phone do you have? Really? Okay, that's what I'm
like, what's your laptop? Whatever? So anyway, they came up with
the campaign that I would be doing normal things, that Michael Garfield would be
doing it in my regular life and people would come up and ask me questions
and it was it. Actually it turned out very cute, I think,
And again I a lot of the props to the scriptwriters in the way they
shot this thing. But I'm a runner and I'd run, you know,
marathons and everything. And so one we shot in a park in Austin.
This was a tough way. We really I was. We really ran and
there was I feel bad because you know, they gave me this running outfit
with shoes and little short shorts and everything. Then they had to find extras.
They had to find it like eight to ten extras who were physically fit,
who could run to keep up with me. But the worst part is
the cameraman, because the cameraman had this cameras were bigger twenty five years ago
that it was a real film camera that they had on a rig that the
dude had to it was like a steady camp which was a harness on his
body. So this guy, I'm not Kenya. He was six and a
half plus feet all. He was this monster, and God love him.
He had to run packwards because I was running forward with the things, so
do I. That was a real thing. And the punchline of everything was
I'm just doing my own thing alone. I'm running alone, and all of
a sudden, somebody recognizes me and they said, hey, you're Michael Garfield.
Theyn't let me ask a question, and then somebody else asked a question,
and then somebody else asked a question. So the punchline of that one
was as I'm running alone. The end shot was or ten people running and
chasing after me, asking me questions. I also golf There was one that
where I was golfing and I'm just go golfing with three other buddies and were
in a force and they're asking me questions about broadrunner or something. And then
the next thing you know, there's like ten golf carts coming over the horizon
to the grain to run and ask me questions. But to answer your question,
was it Jessica at Paarland, I'm in this story telling me today,
Yes, there was one, and this really happened. So I have three
boys and they were My youngest was just more of My youngest Adam must have
been a year and a half two years old. My middle son, Josh
was at that point he was obviously five years four and a half five years
old, and Justin was the old one. He was about eight years old.
So anyway, they said, listen, maybe we do something out of
school or something, because when you go to school, people ask you questions,
like the mothers will come up and ask you questions, and when you're
in the carpool like cause I used to pick up and take my kids to
school out of the time, so it was good. So anyway, I
said, being real, I said, yes, let's do it at a
school. But I'm not having a fake kid. I'm using one of my
real sons. Sure call me nepotism, who cares, I'm using one of
my real sons. So we ended up using my middle son, so because
he at that point he was about five years old, four and a half
five years old, and if you know my middle son, and to love
my middle son, he's kind of the obstinate one. He's lying here and
I really don't want to do this, Josh Man, come on, this
is gonna be a TV commercial and it is just gonna be other kids,
and it's gonna be snacked. And I think they were gonna pay like like
a four and a half five year old kid, and the kid cares.
I mean he was getting paid. I don't know. They paid him like
five five, six hundred dollars whatever a day rate was. And at that
point we had to we had to bribe him. We literally, I think
we had to buy him a skateboard to make him do this thing. But
anyway, that was my real son. He's he's he's got blonde hair.
He's really mine. I have a redhead, I have a blonde, and
I have a brunette. They're all mine. They're all from the same mom.
But we we we shot take after taking. All he had to do,
Josh he had to jobs. It's I'm sitting there and I'm in the
classroom. I dropped him off. A mother comes over and tugs somebody,
Hey, aren't you Michael Garfield. I got a question about Roadrunner. All
my son Josh had to do was just tug on my shirt, just tug
like I'm ready to like get out of here dad. Classes starting, and
then at the very end he all he had to say was that all the
kids, you know, because it's Roadrunner, all my son and all these
kids had to do on que they had to go beep bebep like the Roadrunner.
God, I know he's not listening. He he couldn't, He didn't
want to do it. He just did not hit that queue. I have
no We must have sat there, oh God, like it was an hour
and a half on a Sunday in this classroom and I think it was hot.
And he finally hit the Q. But yes, that was my real
son. So there is the history of branding and the commercials. If you
really want to go back, I'll find these things and I'll put them on
my website, which is high tech textan dot com. How did I get
into this, I don't know, but this is what's called storytelling. People.
If you have podcast, if you want to get into communications, you
have to learn to tell stories and have passion and be compelling. I bet
not one person got out of their car this entire nine minute segment, and
you're waiting with bita breath for me to give away a gift card or something.
Guess what after the break? I'm telling you people, this is radio
one on one. This is how we do in your I Teck Texit show.
Okay, as much as you love all my stories of going back in
the day NFL, I started to media my brand or the time water road
Runner commercials, we work at continue content time people. If you want to
try to win a gift card to Cabo Bob's make your own Burritos, good
Gosh overunder. I think I was I there three times this week, three
teams a week stand by. All you need to do is contribute to the
show. Why don't you try to tweet me or ex me a very good
question, making a funny man entertain me. Why don't you entertain me for
the first time in twenty three years? People? Ah, why don'd you
do that? You could also send me an email Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot
com outter it's make it something good and got a twenty five dollars gift card
to me. That's one of the beautiful Cabo Bob's here in and across the
city of Houston. And also they were in Austin too, and I think
there's one at San Antonio. It's really good, Stuffy I saw, you
know, I reviewed products for a living and over the years, off you
listen. I don't talk a lot about Sony. I like Sony's a company.
Sony's got a phenomenal story, you know, going back to Japan and
you know, creating the Walkman, and I mean just it was it was
just a real beautiful Sony has always been a leader, truly a leader when
it comes to electronics so much so. But when you're a leader, and
when you're first to market, you also have the opportunity to price, to
price your products very high. I don't talk a lot about Sony because the
there good products, but I really do worry about price point. I am
a cost hunt just consumer radio media personality host where I say, hey,
listen, I'm gonna answer some questions. Yes, this is a good product,
but there's just as good as the product where this one is less expensive
than it will save you money. Which is why I don't talk a lot
about Sony. Sony's great I mean I got when I go to Consumer Electronics
Show every year January, the Sony booth has just always been one of the
largest booths inside the Vegas Convention Center that is city blocks long. I mean,
because they have video games, They've got Sony PlayStations, They've got course,
they've got televisions that they've they believe or not. They actually have phones,
they have you know, AI and sports gifts, they have cameras,
I mean, guesse. It goes on and on. The thing with Sony
that is always just puzzled and boggled my mind as long as with so many
other consumers is the way that they name a lot of their products or a
lot of the lines within their products. If you do buy Sony products and
you're un familiar with it, with you buy a Sony camera high end camera.
If you both Sony TV back in the day or or video camera.
It's a combination of letters and numbers. It is so damn confusing. Wh
dash xb nine one zero in? What is that? Is that a phone?
Is that a TV? I don't even know? Man, they've always
done it, ladies and gentlemen, breaking news. Good riddance WHXB nine one
zero inn. Because Sony's confusing product names, We're finally going away this big
I may start talking about Sony now, man. Sony just debuted a new
line of speakers and headphones last week, and instead of coming up with letters
and dashes and numbers, they actually gave them names. Sony debuted the ult
the old lineup of speakers and headphones. It was it's a first step towards
making a big change in naming its products. Good for you. Sony has
just been so confused, so much so, if I'm trying to review a
product, do you want me to say, Hey, listen, I really
do like these headphones. I want you to go out because it's not a
bad price point that the WHB nine to one zero in find the headphones you're
hunting for is pretty cool? You gotta remember that. You can remember that,
no versus, Go get it. Go get some Apple AirPods. All
right, it's the iPhone, iPhone fifteen, iPhone thirty. Give me something
easy to remember. Samsung has the Galaxy. All they do is change the
number. You see where I'm going at. Don't give me the SRS x
V nine hundred. I don't want that stuff. Sony's also revising, revising
the names for home audio and TV products. And there there is one name
that you may have been familiar with Sony. It's the Sony Bravia b R
A, B I A. That's their TVs, and they have new TVs
comeing out now. The seat they're going with the numbering system, the Bravia
nine, Brava eight, Bravia seven, Brabi, Bravia three. I'm not
kidding you. One of them was named, I'm not kidding you, the
x R sixty five an L. I'm serious. They're even taking their soundbars
and speakers and they're using the Bravia theater name along with some little bit more
descriptive terms. That's good one. Except headphones and ear buds. They're very
different before this naming change. I'm not kidding you, and I want you
to follow me, and I'm gonna say it slowly. Sony has a pair
of earphones over the head cans over the headphone earphones w H one thousand x
five. You have ear butts WF one thousand XM five. It's one letter
apart. They're totally different products. You know how confusing that is? So
do I good? For study? We will continue this over there. What's
the It's not so much just a brand name. It's it's it's the lineup
of names. I mean ours do it? I mean think of the line
of General Motors. General Motors has a Chevy line, they have a GMC
line. Stillantis which is the holding company that has Jeep. It also has
Dodge, it has it has Maserati, it has feat But then there's sub
sub brand. There's the Stilantis owns Jeep. Well, there's the Jeep Wrangler,
There's the Jeep Grand Jerokee. There's the Jeep Cherokee. I mean it
goes on and on and on. It's not the x C Dash four five
you know, T one. That's that's marketing one O one And I just
told you it's how marketing and branded myself Man you can't do that stuff.
So anyway, good for Sony Hope. Well, I don't know. Maybe
I'll talk about it more, but you know what they're not gonna do.
They're probably not gonna lower their prices, and so what are you gonna do
with that phone number? Here? Seven one, three, two five?
Oh uh? We got about three minutes. Yeah, let me give you
a data breach action right over here. I did this story when a reporter
from Channel eleven came over and got a SoundBite earlier. This coming week,
it's going to air I think early Tuesday morning. I will not see it
because I do not wake up that early. And had a big breach data
leach, a big, massive hacking, and actually was several years ago.
And they're trying to make it up to their customers following the leaks, and
it was idea and here's what they're gonna do. I good for this,
and I'm gonna take this other way for another two minutes. We're going to
talk about this and the other side too, at and t trying to make
customers feel more at ease because they're going to offer you, if you're an
att customer or former customer, security perks because sensitive information of more than seventy
million people was leaked on the dark web last month. Seven point six million
current customers and get this, sixty five million former customers were affected by this
data breach, personal information, social security numbers. This is all data from
twenty nineteen or earlier. It's a lot. So what are they gonna do?
Well, what's the one thing they can do? I don't know.
It's tough, and they're gonna give you free service. They are going to
give people who were affected complementary identity theft and credit monitoring services along with a
one million dollar insurance in policy and help from identity restoration team. So if
your data is compromised, they will help pay up to a million dollars to
get your life back online. One year of complementary credit monitoring. There's three
major credit monitoring services for experience and things like that. They're gonna give you
one year credit monitoring, identity theft protection and resolution services in that insurance policy
of a million dollars in coverage in the event of identity theft. The way
we set your passwords and pass codes. I'm gonna let you think about this.
I'm gonna let this marinate over the commercial. Okay, thanks, AT
and T. Pretty cool, appreciate it. You know what we don't it
ain't cheap cell phone data services? Why not just offer that to everybody?
Maybe it's the electric company, maybe it's maybe it's banks. Why not If
we're paying all these fees, it may be worth the value of loan of
saying, hey, along with you paying Because I'm paying two hundred and fifty
or two hundred and sixty freaking dollars a month a time to my cable bill
bill right now, Comcast, why don't they give me a credit monitoring service
in case their information is breaching? Okay, it's gonna make my monthly bill
a little easier to swallow. I don't know. Think about that. When
Little Married Days we come back here on my High Tech Texts show. So
what do you think I'm going to carry this over from the last segment?
If you just tune again here, Michael is my name, Garf nickname High
Tech Texts and the Moniker. Feel free to hit me up here seven one,
three, two, one, two, five nine five Oh for listening.
On Saturday four twenty AT and T Data Breach. They're offering current customers
and former a lot of former customers whose data may have been leaked onto the
dark web. They're offering them a one year complementary service of theft monitoring and
consumer fraud services, a million dollar policy in case they have ID identity theft
to help restore it, and credit monitoring services. Do you have a credit
monitoring service right now? Anybody? I used to have a credit monitoring service
and I paid for and I forgot what it was. It's it's it's you
know, listen. I I lean towards the always protect yourself, be very
concerned. You know, you know, you know, of judicious of what
where you're spending your money. But make sure you protect yourself. It's not
gonna hurt. Has anybody ever plaid identity theft? Has anybody ever tried to
restore it with any of these credit monitoring or ID theft services. I'd love
to hear from me. Absolutely great question seven one, three, two,
one two, five nine five outs today's truth question. I'm serious about this.
How tough is it? I mean it's like if somebody gives you a
bad review online of a restaurant or something, that thing, that thing is
online for a while of wiping it off there. So uh, if you
anyway, here's what you need to do. You need to do go to
just do a little Google Church, AT and T Data breach, uh,
and you can find a website where you could put your and this is legit.
It will put your email in there and it'll verify it to you because
it will send you up six to your code on your email to and it
will go takes about thirty seconds to search the internet and it will show you
color coded what information of yours is out there. And specifically, in this
case, if your information was leaked by AT and T. If AT and
T did leak, luckily mine is no. I don't think I've not I
don't think I don't think I've had AT and T. So I'm fine with
that, which is good. It doesn't mean that my current cell provider it
hasn't been leaked too. But in this case, AT and T is trying
to trying to do its best. So there you go. Just again,
people, just protect yourself. You are speaking of well, speaking of phones,
let me see if I could tackle this one. I gotta need several
emails over here, Michael. It's the time, maybe time for me to
get a new phone. All you do is talk about androids. I know
you're a big Android, pip anything new in the world of androids, because
I know iPhones don't come out to the fault. Actually there was Samsung did
come out they just is was it this week? Samsung just released and I
know I'm gonna make sure I get it right because I just got the Do
I agree? Am I allowed to say? Oh, you're good? The
embargo was lifted on Thursday? Could I get say? Samsung Galaxy there's a
new one coming out. But this is not the Galaxy S series. It's
the A series. Samsung just announced. It's the new Galaxy A thirty five.
A thirty five that is the it's a five G phone and it starts
at four hundred dollars. That's it's a mid range phone. Yes, there's
such thing as high end phones, mid range phones and what have you.
But when you're looking at a price point a four hundred dollars, were to
call it, sadly, I'd like to call that a high end phone,
but sadly, it's just a mid range phone. That's mid range phones.
I haven't had the opportunity to play with it yet. Nicole Montana However,
from what I hear, uh, they it's relatively very similar to the Glexy
S series in terms of form factor in shape. This is not a foldable.
It does have a very good display. It's got upgraded camera capabilities,
including what they call Flagship Favorites, which is probably some of their editing software,
and some good security too, so the night portrait mode and the nicography
modes, they are upgraded to elevated camera. It's got a super al Mowood
display. And this actually for the first time, it's got a good security
defense for you. It's the Samsung Knocks Vault. Knocks Vault's good security for
hardware and software attacks. So they're a thirty five. It comes in comes
in two colors. These really the names of the colors. Awesome Navy and
Awesome Lilac. Those are awesome names. Man. That's pretty cool. By
the way, for a limited time and the users can get thirty percent off
Galaxy Buds f E when you buy one of those phones that I just talked
about. Those are little Samsung buds. Is there any other pricing? The
nice song? Yeah, here we go ho with the pricing. No,
that's it, four hundred No it's officially to there, so that's one I
have also been testing. Listen, I always test foldable phones too. If
you want some good foldable phones, let me see if I can run down
here in about three minutes before we have to get out of here for this
break. Good foldable phones are flip phones back? Good question I get.
I'm not going to have to define what's back and what's not back. I've
been using a flip phone for probably four or five years since Samsung's first well
for you know, relatively new five years ago, the Samsung Z Flip and
then the Z Flip two, three, four, and five. They also
have foldable phones too. They to me, they're all very durable. The
Samsung Galaxy Z lines has what's called Z the all the disease, which is
the flip filt. They have ip X eight water resistance. That means if
it falls into water for about thirty minutes or so, shallow water about five
feet, it should be good. They have flexible screens. They're really neat.
When you see I've never seen a foldable or flex or a flip phone
new in person where the and I'm not gonna say it's glass, but you
know where just bins and puts in your pocket. It is pretty cool.
I got to go to the Samsung World headquarters last July in Soul, South
Korea for the debut of the Fold five and the Flip five, and it
was really neat. I got to be able one of the first people in
the world to see it when it debuted out there, and it's it's neat.
I like the form factor. I don't use it on a regular basis.
I do use a Samsung Galaxy S. I think I have the twenty
three or twenty four. This is just because of what I have, because
the camera on the one that I currently have is a little bit better,
and I use my camera for shooting high end videos. Another thing there,
listen, there are other models. There are other companies out there makes some
Google makes one. Google makes a pixel fold. The z folds are great.
The pixel fold very close. It's good. It's about you know.
It folds out like a book. It's got a big exterior display. He's
got a great camera, it's got a good battery life. These things aren't
cheap. These folds are about eighteen hundred dollars. I'm also a big fan
of one plus one O n E p l U U P l U S.
Last October I went to New York with the one plus folks where they
debuted the one plus open starts at seventeen hundred dollars but very interesting too.
Yes, it is Android, it's a bit more affordable than the other competition.
Good performance, and I think it's a little bit thinner and a little
bit lighter designed than the other one too. I like the battery life and
though it does have a little on the rear camera. It's really interesting because
they've got a partner with Hassleblooe cameras. It's kind of a bulky rear camera,
but it doesn't have the greatest night vision shooting. But sometimes you're you're
gonna two three hundred dollars off if if you want to, you know,
go online to one plus this website. But I like that that. I'm
not saying it's my lead, but it's very very good too. I have
not tried mot Motorola has got some flip phones. The point is there's a
lot of options out there. There's not two people think, oh, there's
an Apple I phone and there's the Samsung. There's so so, so many
others do. And I'm telling you, if, if, maybe, when
iPhone ever comes out with the foldable footable phone, I'm gonna be hearing it
forever. Oh my goodness, this was like this. I've never seen a
phone like this. People, grow up, listen to my show. I'm
telling you there's so many options. Right now, we're gonna take a break
out at number one is ovip as we continue so much more giveaways, goodies
and information. I'm a high tech texting shit right here. KPRC nine to
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Now your high tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Halfway through the High Tech
Tection Show, which means we are halfway to happy hour people on a beautiful
Saturday. If you're listening live, it should be just after twelve noon on
Saturday. If you're listening to the Encore presentation, Happy Sunday as we repeat
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So for all you midnight truckers who are rolling up and down iten or
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going to hopefully not cause any accidents or half you pull over to a Bucky's
and get a big, massive coffee. But wherever and however you are listening
to this show, we do you. Thank you for tuning in for two
plus decades. We have some fun. I am not going to delve into
checking and I really never have delved into the technology of I'm going to fix
your computer. Now it's called the High Tech Texans Show. Two plus decades
ago, I did start talking about and recommending and explaining how some interesting technology
works. This was the advent of Wi Fi and cell phones or you know,
kind of in their relatively early stages, still before the iPhone was released,
laptops, desktops, TV off TV. That was a big one,
man. That was That's when digital television took over analog television. The transformation
into the early two thousands, and then it was flat screen TVs. And
then I mean the big debate was was it LCD or plasma. I was
a plasma guy. I was a plasma. And now there's so many different
variations of different the video screens and monitors, and hell, we don't even
need TVs now. We watch things on our phones. We have grown now.
Now I review cars and in video games and travel and bourbon and I'm
consumer lifestyle guys. So whatever you what to app about or just kind of
keep you awake or have you raised the glass cocktails or something? Here is
I don't know. We got we got at least we got, you know,
basket. NBA playoffs are starting, we got baseball going on. It's
kind of the I don't know. To me, it's I'm just with some
four months away from football. That's that's all I'm doing. I'm killing time,
people, I'm killing time. Phone number here if you are listening live,
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I talked, I'd like talking about food generally because you know, I'm a
you know I'm I'm I am not a food that is a horrible name.
Food is a is a food snob. Now I'm a I'm a peanut butter
and pecante sauce sandwich. Guy. I give me some some tacos, give
me some burritos. By the way, Cabo Bob shout out, we have
I still have yet to give away a Cabo Bob's gift card at this show.
I'm still waiting for somebody to add some really fun interesting comment content or
a question. Uh so, uh we'll give at a kaba four different Cabo
Bob burrito uh Bill Joam Brito locations here in Houston. So I saw this
thing. I'm gonna segue this into Red Lobster. When is the last time
you guys have been to Red Lobster. I live almost a cross a freeway
from a Red Lobster for twenty years, twenty five years. I think I've
been in there twice. Maybe not a Red Lobster. Red Lobster. I
saw this. We're not sitting shiva for it yet, but Red Lobster may
be closed to bankruptcy. Does this put a damper on anybody's lives who goes
to Red Lobster on a regular basis, that the bankruptcy of a Red Lobster
would cause them to have a nervous breakdown. It's a sad story because it's
a very it's a famous brand of restaurant, I guess, for lack of
a better, you know term, famous bran. But the problem was let
me give you some mestats over here. They closed eight locations last year.
At twenty twenty three, the investment group that held most of mistakes, they
had a twenty two million dollar loss for the year and they're facing potential bankruptcy.
Two points over here that I want to point out apparently the major one
of the major causes of the downfall last year, and I did not know
this. They had an all you can eat promotion. Now I dig all
you can eat AYCEE as we call it in the industry. I like all
you can eat. I shouldn't. I really shouldn't eat all I can,
but it's kind of fun. They had a twenty dollars ultimate endless shrimp deal
twenty bucks. Apparently last year, in the third quarter alone, it cost
a company eleven million dollars. This is according to Restaurant Business. I guess
it's a magazine or something. They ultimately raised the cost of twenty five bucks,
though I hardly think that's gonna recoup the eleven million dollars. Is this
still going on? What marketing genius thought? Twenty bones for all you can
eat shrimp is a good deal because I can I can pound some shrimp.
I mean, I can hammer me some shrimp and listen. I mean,
if it was fried, no, because I try to stay away from fried
foods. And if it's peel your own shrimp, I understand because I get
bored and tired of peeling my own shrimp. But if I'm at some fancy
or semi fancy schmancy banquet event and I see from afar there's this ice sculpture
by the food, let me help you out. I know there's some shrimp
sitting in there, and that ice maybe a lobster, maybe something, maybe
a little crab cloth. And I'm going to town. And if the shrimp
are big and they're not peeled ready to pop in my mouth, and there's
a big bowl of that red Horse Radish sauce. Dame is freaking on.
Hell yeah, I'm bank Umpton that caterer right there. I get you.
Also about the uh. Probably Red Lobster is famous for their cheddar biscuits.
I guess is this the Is this the tostato chips of Red Lobster? When
you sit down here in Texas at a Mexican food joint, Yeah, in
tex mex joint, you get you get free baskets of text mes. Generally
they're free, and they should be free here in Texas. I think you
you get free cheddar biscuits or something. I remember having them, and people
swear by these things. They I mean, they they this is the end,
all beyond. They were very good, is the and that's I think
what they're famous for. Is there another I'm gonna leave you this with a
uh for a breakover here and then we're gonna have a little I need your
input people. Is there another food like cheddar biscuits that is so synonymous with
the restaurant like Red Lobster that you just go to for it? Somebody hits
said well, this is a fun question I bring up once or twice to
some friends when I'm beapping around. Is it Texas Roadhouse that's got good biscuits
to or something? Yeah? I mean I don't want anything general like,
oh, you go to text Mex Place and you've got chips. That's just
for say, But I mean a specific restaurant. You know you're going to
Red Lobster. You know you're getting Jedder biscuits. What are a restaurants out
there who have something synonymous and it doesn't have to be I mean Masstros,
I know has their buttercake. Okay, that's that's the dessert and that costs
money. But Chedder biscuits, I think they're free when you sit down.
Help me out here seven one three two five O Michael Garfield. I swear
we will get into actually good content. But you know what, this is
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on Night Houston. iHeartRadio Fotball as well on a Saturday. If you'd you'd
be listening live. Thank you for downloading this on the podcast and you can
listen to it anytime. Speaking of podcast and downloading, guess who released a
new album a few nights ago. Sneaking in in the middle of the night
kk K, Taylor Swift releases drops as the kids say, her new album
breaking new Spotify did not break. When that happened, it was Thursday or
Friday at two in the morning. You wake up and you check your you
know, you kind of check your social media's and it's like freaking out.
I don't worry about you know, Iran and Israel. They're bombing each other,
got a former president. They just you know, seated twelve jurors for
a massive trial. Now no, nowt dropped a new album. It's it's
funny. This is the world we live in. Uh. Not only did
Taylor Swift release a new album a few two hours later after she released her
new album, apparently she released the second half of the album. It's a
double album, a rainbow. Oh bye, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna go old school over here for all you all you listeners friends of
mine who were over I mean, I don't know, I'm gonna guess forty
years old or something. Do you remember when albums number one were actually albums?
There were vinyl albums. Yes, I know final albums that are coming
back, and I love that. I can appreciate that. But do you
remember when you went to an actual record store or a tape store or a
CD store, a sound warehouse to get an album. Now days you wake
up at two in the morning and you automatically download or you listen it because
it streamed. There's good and bad. Because when I was, when I
was in high school or college, that's the way we did it. I
went to a sound wareouse. I grew up in Dallas. There were several
sound warehouses. There was a number of different other record stores or whatever.
I went to school in Austin, and right on the drag, right on
Guadaloup, right I was nearing the co op, there was a I think
it was a sound warehouse, not certainly not there anymore. That that's where
I spent a lot of the money that I did not have buying. I
remember specifically, I bought Princes When Doves Cry the album. I already had
the Michael Jackson album because I was a lawyer, but Prince that came out
with the you know, the whole nineteen ninety nine and everything. So I
got that Minute Work were big. I remember counting down. I don't know
this a Minute Works second album. I have no clue why I got so
into it again. I was the music big time, and you know,
Casey, Casey, I wanted to be in the radio. It was a
radio Toeson and film major. But anyway, point is, we went and
we had to drop and this this is These were cassette tapes and we were
dropping twelve bucks thirteen fifteen dollars on a cassette. Nowadays, let's fast forward.
You don't pay anything. You just stream this stuff. If you have
Spotify, you get Spotify free. You could. You can't hear the songs
in order, but you don't get the you don't physically see anything. You
don't get the liner notes. You don't you know, you buy Janet Jackson's
album, you know, Rhythm Nation back in the late eighties, I mean
she has to thank five hundred people that you're sitting there reading the liner notes
while you know you're you're listening to songs. Nowadays, you don't know nothing.
You just hear it's it's it's I'm not saying it's sad, it's bad,
but it's just these these are different times. People. Old man is
officially screaming at the clouds here seven one three two one two five nine five
zero. Uh, let's go to these young folks. Kids, your TikTok
may be banned. We are getting closer to uh. The US. The
Senate voting could come as soon as next week that could ban TikTok. The
legislation, if you remembered, it really sailed through the House of Representatives,
this was last month, but it faced an uncertain future in the Senate because
there's a few prominent lawmakers who were literally older than God, who have no
clue what TikTok is other than their little pocket watch from the eighteen hundreds going.
Oh, but they want to stop it. TikTok, as you know,
is owned by a Chinese company called byte Dance. They believe that they
are using this as a trozen horse, that they could find out all your
information on your phone through the TikTok app, which Sike actually can't deny that,
which is one of the reasons why I have never downloaded TikTok. They
did tweak it last month. They said if TikTok. If this law passes
and President Biden would sign this thing in the law, it would ban TikTok.
TikTok would have to sell it itself for divest itself six within six months.
They've tweaked it. Now the latest version of this bill, bite Dance
would have up to twelve months to divest TikTok instead of that six month period
stipulated in that original measure. And is let's say that TikTok is banned?
Here? Is this going to be life as life changing as red lobster closing
due to bankruptcy. I want you to think about this. You see what
I did there, that's a professional It's called a recall. That was from
last segment. What's worse red lobster closing, goodbye all you can eat shrimp
for twenty five bones and goodbye cheddar biscuits. Or not seeing people do do
a TikTok dance? That that makes no sense. That's that's tough. Say
down A seven one three, two one two five nine five. Oh,
we've passed into law TikTok and then the other apps that are controlled by A
four an adversary and I'm using air quotes there indemed to be a national security
thread. They'd face a band in app stores here like the Apple Store or
Google Play. You know me, and you're listen to me. You love
me. I don't delve into politics. I don't want to get into this
thing. There is a good aspect and a bad aspect about this. For
me. Number one, they don't think it's right for our government to tell
us that something a very popular cool and I'm using a tool, an app,
the ban because we can't use it. However, if this is indeed
a national security threats, indeed they can prove that, Yes, I think
we should be warned about this thing. It's it's it's a tough situation.
And it goes back to when I use to work for Microsoft. I worked
for Microsoft for just a heartbeat back in the late nineties and Microsoft was being
sued for antitrust and it really had to do with the Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Because Windows owned everything, Windows ninety five, Windows ninety eight, Windows,
everybody had Windows, and when you downloaded or where you had the Windows operating
system, pretty much Microsoft forced to let you to make you use Microsoft's Internet
Explore browser. And this is when the browsers, the worldwide Web browsers,
they just started coming out. There was another there was several other competitors.
There was Netscape, there was a number of others, and there's anti it
was an anti trust. Well, therefore, I mean, this is why
they're gonna, you know, when the browser war, this is why there's
such a big market books here, because if you're gonna use Windows, they're
going to force you. And so they were sued. But the Mike Bill
Gates was and I worked there, and maybe I was defending Microsoft as they
worked there, but I was thinking, let me help you out here.
Here is a dude, Bill Gates, who didn't even graduate college, who
comes up with just an He builds the world's largest company, most profitable,
the craziest to unbelievable company in the nineties. That's what Microsoft was. Microsoft
was Apple, Google, Netflix wrapped into one. That's how big the Microsoft
was in the late nineteen nineties. Thank you very much for all the stock
that I got for as an employee over there. But here's a guy who
worked his ass off and just built a phenomenal company, and now his own
government of his country is saying, no, you're too successful. We're gonna
see you. That made me mad. That made me mad. So companies,
if you're smart, go for it. Man. It's like, why
would you start a company? Why would you try to be so successful knowing
or thinking there's a possibility that the government or some entity like that can actually
slow you down the process. So that's kind of why I have a little
interesting feelings with the not that I have skinning the game on the TikTok thing,
and I don't have any skin in the game of Microsoft anymore. But
that's kind of how I view a business right now. Hopefully no government is
going to slow down the growth of the high tech texting brand, which is
twenty two years rolling. We're gonna take a break right now, thirty minutes
left of the show. When we come back, we're gonna talk about a
few things. Also, no more Taylor Swift album. But about the work
week. Do you ever hear the rumor that we're gonna go down to a
four day work week? Ah? Not so fast. There's a company just
announced it's going the other way. Oh, I saw that the movie Interstellar
is celebrating its ten year anniversary. You guys, iver remember watching Interstellary I've
seen it once and I may have seen it. I don't think I saw
it in the movie theater. I guess I saw it on a DVD streaming
or something. Christopher Nolan Oscar winner Christopher Nolan. It was his sci fi
odyssey. I guess it's It's been about ten years since it was first released
in Theates, and they're bringing it back now. They're bringing it back later
this year in iMac seventy millimeter and it was it's Matthew McConaughey was in it,
and Hathaway, Jessica Chastain. I love all three of those people.
It came out in the fall of twenty fourteen, and it was a like
everything Christopher Nolan does. I'm gonna call it an odd or weird movie,
kind of a mind bindery type of thing. It was like a near future
Earth. It was becoming uninhabitable because there was a blight that was going to
wipe out all the food crops, and some astronauts they had to go to
space to look for another planet that could support life. But then there was
this wormhole and there was a space time. Weird. Dang ou don't it
was successful. I think it made seven hundred and thirty plus million dollars globally.
But they're rereleasing it ten years. At what point do you celebrate a
movie to re release it again? Is Interstellar worth it? I'm just just
you know, I'm just gonna spend a few more seconds of this thing ten
years Interstar? Are you gonna watch it again? Why would you do that?
When all you do if you have a streaming service and you could talk
into your milk control and just say Interstellar you want to go to I mean
seventy millimeters imax mass cool? But is Interstellar one of those really worthwhile type
of films? I mean, I don't. I mean Gone with the Wind,
COSSA Black, A Wizard of Oz. I mean those were theys come
out what nineteen thirty nine or something, so that maybe a one hundred.
So maybe in twenty thirty nine they'll have a one hundred years we'll go see
them in fully imax and they're a beautiful black and white version. I don't
know. I just thought that I was interested. I don't know if Interstellar
is worth it, and I'm probably getting the fun I'll get ready for the
phones to light up for the uh, Interstellar lovers who are gonna come down
to me. They're gonna rain down on me. I probably should watch it.
Was it a weird Do you remember Calum Do you remember Interstellar? All
I know is I'm a McConaughey was in there, so I'm guessing he had
a Texas drawl. I love Van Hathaway people. I don't know why.
People I just did. Some people aren't Anne Hathaway fans. I think Anne
Hathaway is just sexy. Sorry now I'm not sorry. I like it.
Just Chastain, beautiful red hair. I loved her. She does several space
movies. She was in The Martian. She was like the ship's commander to
go save Matt Damon. Oh, she liked great in that movie. I
guess I need to rewatch that. I'm not waiting to watch it. A
Ford and seventy milimeter ibacks in September, maybe all White this week. Let's
I have four months where there's kind of aduldrum in sports, and so I
may watch that, all right, Michael Garvel, this is called the high
Tech Text and show, big hullabaloo about work weeks. You know now that
work from home became kind of a thing during COVID and productivity in some aspects
went up. Companies are saying, we want you back in the office,
but maybe we're going to take the five day traditional Monday through Friday work week,
and then maybe we're going to cut it down to four days. Is
that a good thing? And then I'm thinking, well, if they use
a four day work week, would it be a Monday through Thursday or would
you rather have it Tuesday through Friday. Oh, look at me, big
tough questions here in the Michael Garfield High Tech Text and Show. However,
there is a company, a massive worldwide company, then it's a you know
what I don't. We're going the other way. We need to work harder,
we need to work harder. That's right. People. Samsung based in
Seoul, South Korea. I went there and I visited it last July.
I was there on behalf of Samsung. They flew some journalists out to check
it out. Samsung owns South Korea. I mean maybe not actually owns it,
but they probably do. I mean, you can't go anywhere. I
mean there was no Apple anyway, it was no Apple phone. I mean,
Samsung was just just everywhere. Samsung apparently they did not have a great
year in terms of profits and losses as they thought they would, and they
want to have a sixth day work week, at least for some of their
executives. A sixth day week. You're forcing execs across all their major units
to work six days a week, so they're gonna go Monday through Friday,
plus either a Saturday or Sunday. You're saying this new policy is meant to
inject a sense of crisis because the company failed to meet financial expectations last year
and they got some economic headwinds they're facing. You had to work six days
a week. Do you want to work the Saturday or Sunday? Could?
I? Could I change that? Every six months? No? Gosh,
that's yeah. No, that's a tough on because football season. I'm screwed.
Saturday, it's about college football. Sunday it's the NFL. I don't
care if it's not football season. I don't. He doesn't. What the
hell am I talking about. I'm working on the Saturday right now, the
Sabbath. I'm going to hell. Well, then I would probably like Sundays,
so I would probably just suck it up and work Sunday. Do you
know why I don't like Sunday. I got the stupidest reason why I don't
like. I've never liked. When I was a kid, I hated Sundays.
I hated Sunday nights. You know, I hate because I am an
optimist looking in the mirror. And I am gonna tell you, like Stuart
Smully, my I'm Michael Garfield, and I hate Sundays, and I'm an
optimist because you know why, because I'm always looking ahead. And I knew
what the next day after Sunday was. It was Monday, and it was
a school day. So I hated Sunday. Oh no, it's Sunday because
tomorrow is Monday. You didn't go to church. Football season was good and
the worst part of Sundays. This is the second time I'm actually gonna use
the term TikTok. The worst time ever on Sunday was six o'clock PM Central
on CBS because when I grew up, obviously I grew up in Dallas and
the Dallas Cowboys were playing their late afternoon window game, not summer all.
Tom Brookshiw actually was his partner initially before it was John Madden. The Chowboys
went in on CBS coming up next on CBS after the game sixty minutes followed
by murder, She wrote on the East Coast, and all I know when
they signed off, I heard the TikTok, TikTok, TikTok of that sixty
minutes watch the weekend was over. Oh that was horrible. And we used
to watch those games at my grandparents' house. They lived only about two miles
from us in Dallas, and my cord cameras. They just love sixty minutes
and we would eat. We would always have fried chicken. They we'd go
to churches and then we'd bring it in and we have to sit there and
watch. Oh that was the worst. Thank God for Sunday Night Football and
ESPN. Now we have something to watch. I digress people, this is
what we talk about here seven one three two one two five nine five zero.
See. I mean you have to be a certain age to understand what
I'm talking about. But then again, I like to think I reach all
age groups, all generations, men and women here on my high tech text
and show what else we got. Checking the time real quick, I got
about a minute before the last breakover here. Six day work week. If
you have something to say about that let me know and uh oh, one
more, let me get this Netflix. Netflix is doing pretty well. I
do talk about streaming because streaming is the new way to watch TV. Uh.
Congratulations to Netflix big time. They had a massive quarter. Netflix added
nine point three million customers. Netflix posted its best start to the year since
twenty twenty. They attracted more customers than anyone expected because apparently they have some
original programming. But it's their crackdown on password sharing. I used to share
a password with someone of my ex family and Netflix got pretty very smart.
They said, Nope, unless you live in the same house, you ain't
sharing that password. And I have not seen Netflix since they've cracked down on
that thing. But I'm obstinate. I did not obstinate. I did not
go ahead and subscribe to it because I already have too many other streamers.
But they added nine point three million subscribers in the first quarter global passwords sharing
crackdown. That really did help. By the way, guess who's next Disney.
Plus, they're going to be cracking down as long as they stay away
from Max because you share somebody's password. Company says it now has two hundred
and sixty nine million global subscribers revenue of nine billion dollars. That's up massively
from last year. But if anybody cares about this thing, this is the
last time. They're not gonna They're no longer going to talk about subscriber numbers.
Netflix says they are going to stop reporting quarterly membership numbers next year because
subscribers are just one component of its growth. If you had to have one,
is this Apparently it's the biggest one. How many different streaming services do
you have? How much does it costing you right now? Do you use
the advertiser supported one? These things are cheaper the Netflix advertisers supported one,
which means you get ads in between your movies. It's about seven bucks a
month. If you don't have that one is twenty twenty five bucks a month.
People, we like ads, advertising supported media. It's a good thing.
Do you know why? Because we're about to take a break, and
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Hey, I tease this in the opening segment. I think about Wi
Fi and I was going to tell you about some of the new Wi Fi
routers, the best something. I got a few emails Michael, my WiFi
router has been around for a while, it's slowing down. What are the
things that you can do for Wi Fi? You need to figure out where's
your WiFi router. If it's in a closet, if it's in office and
in a different part of your house. You physically can pick it up and
move it. If you can move it away from a solid wall, maybe
there's a lot of metal. But then again, there's different types that you
can get that actually boost your Wi Fi signal. And one of it it's
a mesh network. I've used a Wi Fi Mesh system which has built in
it comes with little tiny repeaters and it kind of creates like a little mesh
network. But there's different types of Wi Fi. Now, Wi Fi seven
routers are just coming out. Wi Fi six routers are still the best value.
So if you're looking for a Wi Fi router and you listen, if
you want to really kind of find something interesting, and if you have a
Wi Fi router, most routers, you can log on and you could see
how many devices in which devices are connected to your Wi Fi and your home
a game. Take a guess of how many different devices are connected to your
Wi Fi system, and you're probably gonna guess, Oh, let's I have
a laptop, and you know, everybody the family's got a phone. Maybe
we've got six, seven or eight. I live alone, I think I
have. I am not kidding you over forty different devices connected to my WiFi.
Because you forget about things. You forget about your video doorbell, you
forget about all of your different electronic Wi Fi control thermostats, you forget about
your devices like your peloton. So there's a there's a lot of bandwidth going
on your WiFi. So if you think your WiFi is slow, it probably
is slower than it should be because you have too many devices on there,
or your Wi Fi routers are really not fast enough. So Wi Fi six
right now, I would if you're looking for it and they're not that expensive,
go on Amazon. I mean you could find new Wi Fi routers for
seventy dollars, one hundred dollars. Yeah, there's If you're a gamer and
you need super lightning fast, yeah you're gonna spend. I can tell you
a two hundred dollars plus router. Tpy Link is a really good one.
Asis as us they make a very good, big, good gaming router too,
But net Gear relatively inexpensive, and just I would say do a little
research and if if you're stuck in it, pop me an email again.
This is what I do if I'm not working on Saturdays in the air,
I'm generally you know, playing around and answering your emails. Michael Garfield at
iHeartMedia dot com but let me the let me give you inexpensive one. Here's
one called the t key as in toilet paper pee link. It's the Archer
dep link Archer AX twenty one if that matters. It's sports Wi Fi six,
which is one of the latest standards. It's seventy bucks. A look
looks like at Amazon. I'm not getting one penny from many of this.
I'm just telling you. Here's a net gear. This is ninety dollars net
gear. Hold i'let me give you because tons net gear are sixty seven hundred.
But then again, there's a net gear that I'm saying for six hundred
and twenty five. So just just just be careful. When should you When
should you get the very expensive one? When you have a ton of advices,
a ton of devices, when you have a number of different people logging
on, and what do you want to use it for? Listen if you
are like my son. My son is a video editor and he works out
of his apartment. He has to upload and download massive video files and he's
wired to the internet. Yeah he's wired. No, he's he has wired
connection to the internet. But also he's got a laptop that he uses and
nets in other parts of his apartment. That's when you need a high speed
Internet, but you also want to make sure that your Internet connection itself is
super speedy fast. There's really two parts that I'm gonna in the show like
this. There's two parts of the speediness of an Internet connection. One of
which, yes, if you're on Wi Fi, how fast does that?
Does your de vice wirelessly connect to your router? Well, that's where the
Wi Fi six and the Wi Fi seven, the new standards come in.
That's fast. But again, once it leaves your house, wants it leaves
your apartment, Once it leaves that router, it's got to go to the
Internet itself. And if you're using Exfinity, if you're using whatever type of
connection that you have, and you're it's not fast, that you're limited by
that slowest part. You're limited by the slowest part to get to the actual
Internet itself. Yes, I know internet access ain't cheap right now, but
that's the things that you need to check. But anyway, go see how
long people forget that their WiFi routers. You may have an original one from
almost twenty years ago when I first started talking about Wi Fi systems. Maybe
it's time to upgrade a new one. So there is one of your major
high tech texts and tips of the day, which leads us to the end
of the show. Whoo. We covered everything from Red Lobster potentially closing with
their Jetter cheese biscuits, the Taylor Swift's new album. What else can I
do for you? It is cocktail time, so go find yourself a nice
Papa's p laur rump or whatever else that makes you happy, makes you smile,
get outside, exercise and have a good time. Hey, for those
celebrating passover next week, I'm with you, baby, get ready to get
clogged up. Go get your matza. We will be here next Saturday.
Whatever makes you happy, enjoy it. Callum Read and everybody else here at
iHeart Houston. Thank you for keeping me on the air for two plus decades.
My name is Michael Garfield. This has been the High Tech Texans Show,
and right now my show is over.